Son of Rosemary audiobook

Most people HATE this book. I loved it. I will tell you why. I LOVE thw fact that he waited so long to write it and than changed the rules with this book. I was caught by surprise. The fact that he played that sort of trick on me makes me love this book.

Ira Levin is a genius.I actually jumped and let out a **** at one point while reading this book.

How can so many people hate this beautiful book???Okay, I admit the writing was cheesy and hard to get through at times. B U T T H E E N D I N G !I was going to give this one only 1.5 stars until the ending. Didn't see it coming!EDIT: So I've been thinking about this one for a full year now. I've changed my rating to five stars. Ira Levin showed his bravery with this one and I, for one, will cherish it forever.

Rosemary's Baby was one of my favorite books; imagine how excited I was to find a used copy of Son of Rosemary in the gift shop at Camp Chesterfield! Although it wasn't as good as the original, this sequel definitely held my interest. Set 33 years after Rosemary's Baby, Son of Rosemary opens with Rosemary waking from a 27 year coma. Her immediate concern is for her son, Andy, who had been 6 years old when she fell into a coma. She had divorcedher husband, Guy, for allowing her to be impregnated by Satan, and the evil Castavets had raised Andy. Rosemary is interviewed on the news and makes a plea for Andy to contact her. Much to her surprise, Andy has become a celebrity; a leader in a movement to bring mankind together in peace. She and Andy are reunited, and she becomes a part of his much anticipated candle lighting celebration, planned for New Year's Eve, in the year 2000. The ceremony is to include the entire world; everyone everywhere is to light a special candle at the very same moment to signify all mankind coming together as one family. Rosemary is excited and relieved that Andy has turned his back on his father, Satan, but is all this too good to be true? If I told you, it would spoil the fun!

This book is great. No really, don't let the bad reviews fool you, this book is utterly brilliant.The story line is ridiculous. The themes are ridiculous. However, it's so ridiculous it's fantastic.Son of Rosemary reminds me of a mid-1990's sequel to a brilliant 1960's horror movie. It's so bad it's good. If you like b-movies, you'll probably love this book. I know I did.

Well despite the hundreds of bad reviews, I loved it. It felt so nostalgic for me to have all my favorite characters back in my life. And I personally loved the ending.

The original Rosemary's baby was a great book, now the story continues and readers will be delighted to step into the darkness of a great writer's mind.

I'm seeing a lot of hate for this sequel but I'm going to admit I loved it. I like the jump forward in years and it's fascinating to see how much Andy has accomplished. Rosemary is as sweet as ever, and also a bit dumb, as always. She's so clever in some ways and then SO dumb in others.I found the writing in this one a lot choppier than the rest of Levin's books. It almost feels like he just had an idea and banged it all out and then sent it off to be published. There were a few parts where I was completely lost.The ending is a twist you didn't see coming and it can be interpreted in a few different ways which can feel like a cop out but I kind of enjoyed with this.Haters wanna hate, but Son of Rosemary isn't that bad. It's a goofy, fun thriller of a sequel.

This book sucked me in. I read it in a 12-13 hour sitting. I loved it. The writing was excellent. I enjoyed everything about the book. There were a bunch of MAJOR plot twists. And the ending….OMG! I loved everything about the story. Just when you think you have everything figured out, one of those plot twists happen and it throws you for a loop.The characters were well written, too. Levin made me actually like Rosemary’s son but that caused an internal dilemma for me. I knew he was the son of Satan and you were supposed to not like him and not trust him for that reason. But he was also the Rosemary’s son and a very likable person. ***SPOILER***There is an anagram that Levin put in the book that I cannot figure out and he doesn’t say what it means. It drove me crazy while reading the book and still driving me crazy. I searched the net and can’t find an exact answer.

I found this at a library sale for a quarter, I loved the first one and had never heard of a sequel, so I bought it. I always thought Rosemary's Baby was classier because of the lack of sequel, along with being better written (book & movie!), compared to say The Exorcist or The Omen, which both came a few years after Rosemary's Baby. I normally read very slowly with lots of interruptions, but I finished all 315 pages in 2 1/2 days, much of it read while walking the streets of Burbank, something I hadn't mastered before. It was incredible! I'm going back and reading the first one again. Ira Levin is superb!

Much despised by the critics, a true Ira Levin fan will see the joy and horror in this brilliant novel of Andy, Rosemary's antichrist child from "Rosemary's Baby" and his rise through government. When Rosemary awakens from a coma in the future to find most everyone from the original book dead and gone, she makes it her point to find her son, and becomes drawn in to his world and an apocalyptic destiny that awaits it.

My goodness, this book has gotten some very bad reviews...which makes me think that some people were simply not paying attention to some very specific details. Do me a favour...if you liked Rosemary's Baby, give this one a read without any of the negative biases in the low-scoring reviews and pay.attention.to.every.single.detail! Ira Levin does not always give information at face-value, and when you realize this, this will be an awesome book. So damn good. SO.GOOD.

I give it **** 4 stars because I loved the 1st part and the movie. I loved the character of Rosemary who become more independent in this part than the 1st more determinant , but the devil at the end always win.

Es un libro que pone punto y final a una bióloga y cuyo final no me esperaba para nada

A história de O Filho de Rosemary (1997) tem início em Novembro de 1999, com Rosemary a acordar do coma em que esteve mergulhada desde 1972. A Rosemary que aqui encontramos, é bem diferente da heroína a que nos habituámos no livro anterior...Para pior. Em A Semente do Diabo (1967), temos uma mulher que parece decidida a lutar para defender o filho. Em O Filho de Rosemary (1997), temos uma mãe intrometida que se mete em tudo quanto diz respeito ao filho, inclusivamente vários bitaites sobre como deve gerir certas reuniões ou entrevistas - coisa que ele já faz há bastante tempo, enquanto que ela esteve em coma - , que parece ter uma obsessão em disfarçar-se de Greta Garbo, que gosta de ir esbanjar dinheiro para a Gucci, Chanel e Hermès ... Enfim ... pessoalmente, gosto mais da versão anterior de Rosemary.Já o filho, Andy, está muito bem conseguido e acaba por provocar uma sensação semelhante à que tivemos com o casal Castevet. Há ali qualquer coisa que não bate certo ... mas ao mesmo tempo, não há nada de concreto que possamos apontar. Claro que durante toda a leitura temos presente que ele é o Anticristo e que, à partida, a missão dele será trazer a desgraça ao mundo, mas parece tão boa pessoa. Tal e qual como os Castevets e já sabemos no que é que aquilo deu.Outra coisa que não senti neste livro, foi aquela sensação de claustrofobia que esteve tão presente em A Semente do Diabo (1967). Aliás, em O Filho de Rosemary (1997), a sensação mais frequente foi a de irritação com o à vontadinha de Rosemary, sempre e coscuvilhar a vida do filho e a meter-se onde não era chamada. Ainda assim, achei que o livro ia melhorando à medida que se aproximava do final e, quando achava que já tinha descoberto tudo, aparece o Diabo. Sim, Satanás em pessoa aparece para pregar Andy a uma parede como castigo porque, aparentemente, este mudara de ideias quanto a dizimar a humanidade. Lembram-se das velas que toda a gente deveria acender à meia noite? Pois parece que, quando acesas, libertariam um vírus mortal causando assim a morte a muitos milhões de pessoas. A questão é: será que Andy mudou mesmo de ideias e se tornou num tipo porreiro que afinal já não quer destruir o mundo? Tenho sérias dúvidas quanto a isso, mas acho bastante interessante a forma como Ira Levin nos consegue deixar neste dilema.Visitem UmBlogueSobreLivros e leiam a review completa!Opinião | "O Filho de Rosemary" (1997) de Ira Levin

Sequel to Rosemary's Baby is a completely different type of book and I assume this was (is?) the reason why many people are not liking it. Unlike first book that concentrated on the small number of people and spooky location this book is concentrated on Rosemary, the mother and Andy, the son (half human and you know, half.... devil, not unlike Hellboy but with ability to better blend in). Again this is not slasher novel, there are weird accidents and deaths but what we do have is very slowly brewing story (that reads exquisitely fast) where we follow Rosemary constantly in fear and asking herself "What if?" while aware that she cannot trust anyone because if she tells them what she knows she would end up in mental hospital in express manner.Rosemary knows what her son is but she is still his mother and she tries very hard to keep her faith in him. And Andy is like every superhuman out there, quite capable and aware of his powers and on the surface he seems to try to actually help but can he be trusted((view spoiler)[and his feelings towards mother don't help with Andy being seen as ... a regular son I guess (hide spoiler)]).Ending is a true twist (in more ways than one) but I would not agree that it is bad. For me it is in spirit of first novel - Rosemary gets to live through Groundhog Day of her own. She is selected by someone (something?) to participate in the looong chess game and she might be unwilling pawn.Recommended to horror fans.

** spoiler alert ** I thought it was okay. Then, I really didn't like it. Then, I really really liked it. Then the last few pages brought it down for me with the "it was all a dream" cliché that was never good in anything, ever. HOWEVER, I still really liked this book! a lot more than most people on this app! The Joe twist got me, and the mini mysteries in each part that Levin puts in always keep me wanting to read (which says something, bc it usually takes me a hot minute to read something and not usually one day)!There were cons: sometimes the writing was not good (she described someone doing something "awesomely"), the pacing was weird, and some plot lines/characters were lost for me (who was Hank and when was he able to start walking again?)There was also a lot of, like, casual racism towards Indian people?? So that's obviously NOT GOODNonetheless, Levin still makes me love a genre I rarely read, even in her flop era :P So definitely be wary of this one but don't let the negative reviews sway you away from the genius of Ira "Roast Mules" Levin

Ira Levin did not need to write a sequel to Rosemary's Baby (1967) thirty years later. Yet, he did — for the fun of it. And I did not need to read Son of Rosemary (1997) seven years after I had read the first book. Yet, I did — for the hell of it. To be honest, I enjoyed every minute of it simply because I loved the atmosphere of the original world. Levin created an overdone horror shlock for die-hard fans that was outdated three years after its publication. It should have been adapted for the big screen by Roman Polanski with Mia Farrow and Ewan McGregor in 1999, but that didn't happen. Son of Rosemary is a fun read for Halloween. Because of its episodes set in New York during winter the novel also makes for a comfy guilty pleasure around Christmas and New Year's Eve.Theologically interesting. Literarily amusing. Literally pulp fiction.